Personal Info

E-mail: Martin.speight(at)zoo.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 271122
Web Links: www.zoo.ox.ac.uk

Academic Background:
BSc Zoology with Marine Zoology (Bangor, University of Wales); DPhil Applied Entomology (York); joined St Anne’s in 1978.

Teaching Interests:
Undergraduate: Invertebrate Zoology, Marine ecology and conservation, Insect pest management.
Graduate: Tropical ecology (see below).

Research Interests:
Tropical ecology, rainforest impacts and animal diversity, coral reef ecology including mangroves and sea grass, project over last 5 years in Honduras, Puerto Rico, Tobago, British Virgin Islands, Zanzibar (Tanzania), Kenya, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Indonesia, Australia.

Selected Publications (textbooks):

Martin Speight and Ross Wylie, Insect Pests in Tropical Forests, 2001 (second edition 2010)
Martin Speight, Mark D. Hunter and Allan D. Watt, Ecology of Insects: Concepts and Applications, second edition 2008
Peter Henderson and Martin Speight, Marine Ecology, 2009